Marcelina Kiala (born 9 November 1979) is a retired Angolan

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player and a former member of the

Angola women's national handball team The Angola women's national handball team, nicknamed As Pérolas (''The Pearls''), represents Angola in international handball competitions. History Angola became a member of the African Handball Confederation in 1980. Summer Olympics Angola ...

. Kiala competed at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

and

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

and

2007 World Women's Handball Championship The 2007 World Women's Handball Championship was the 18th edition of the international championship tournament in women's team sport handball that is governed by the International Handball Federation (IHF). France hosted the event from 2–16 Dece ...

. She is the sister of fellow Angolan women's handball player,

Luisa Kiala Luisa (Italian and Spanish), Luísa ( Portuguese) or Louise (French) is a feminine given name; it is the feminine form of the given name Louis (Luis), the French form of the Frankish Chlodowig (German Ludwig), from the Germanic elements ''hlo ...

, half-sister of

Natália Bernardo Natália María Bernardo dos Santos (born 25 December 1986) is an Angolan handball player for Primeiro de Agosto and the Angola women's national handball team. She participated at the 2011 and 2013 World Women's Handball Championships in Brazil a ...

and the wife of former Angolan handball coach

Vivaldo Eduardo Vivaldo Francisco Eduardo (born 11 September 1966), is a handball coach. He has been the head coach of the Angola women's national handball team at the 2011 and 2013 World Women's Handball Championships in Brazil and Serbia. Vivaldo is the spouse ...

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* 1979 births Living people Handball players from Luanda Olympic handball players for Angola Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Angolan female handball players Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics African Games gold medalists for Angola African Games medalists in handball Competitors at the 2011 All-Africa Games {{Angola-handball-bio-stub